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Dear sirs,
Assalamu alaikum.This lady does not know anything of Islam or secularism or state religion.
She says, “ Show me the instance of a forcibly imposed "state religion" in the 1000 years' Muslim rule in
In the thousand year of Muslim rule in India Shariah ( Islamic law ) was the basis of state and law and Qazis or judges used to judge according to this law.This is much more than state religion which is a softer way of a state showing allegiance to Islam .
Secularism ( I call it in Bangla “ Dharma Barjan Bad “) she does not understand at all and it was never integral to our life or system.
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Trumpeting State Religion -- a thoroughly 20th century Fascist idea
Yet another PROOF of what I've been saying all along -----
S. A. Hannan (and the whole Jamaati lot) is the embodiment of the Western-style 20th century Fascism. State religion is a typically IMPORTED idea from the white Christian Europe. So is the idea of a 'State language' over which
Show me the instance of a forcibly imposed "state religion" in the 1000 years' Muslim rule in
Secularism is an integral part of our own history, culture and civilization. The idea of a State Religion is totally foreign, and a trick of evil-intentioned anti-human politics.
We, Bengalis never had a State Religion in all the 800 years of Muslim rule of
Hannan's trumpeting of the "religion of the majority" is based on the British colonialists' computing of people of
It is time to DISCARD this colonial basis of classifying general citizenry by their religion.
Please folks! We have suffered enough! It is time we all wake up to the dangers of these 20th century FASCISTS engulfing the hopes and dreams of our 21st century.
Farida Majid
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